Money is the motivation of lesser minds.

We find reasons for to love money. For sneakers, we have to buy a Nike, when we could do with a Bantex. Friends would fly to California to surf USA, when we have waves far spectacular in Pagudpod up North. We have to eat buffet at Vikings that costs a thousand two hundred pesos per head, when the stomach can be full with half a cup of rice and a simple vegetable dish. People have long been deceiving themselves, working for hard earned money, to spend on unnecessary nonsense. The city services are a given, but these amount to not much. When one installs an aircondition or a cooler, that's another matter.

@japanesesamurai Am glad you were not hypnotized by the branding. There are actually famous people who don't go with the flow and live simply. Keanu Reeves, for one. He commutes via subway. Joe Biden, for another, he walks to work.

@eileenleyva i agree some people use money bad! I am not brand fan but i also buy sometimes

@eileenleyva nothing to write about really. I have always wanted to be a teacher so I decided to apply for an online ESL tutor. Managed to get a couple of classes in the past few months. Now, my schedule can't handle it anymore so I have stopped giving classes. There are others but like I said, nothing much to write about.

@allen0187 A teacher? Oh, the classroom is a real challenge. I love the setting, The students are hyper. Long ago one of my sophomores pulled my long fingernails. She expected to make fun ot fake nails. Whow, she was puzzled. She thought my nails were fake,. Ha ha We are all teachers, allen0187. I like the tutorial stint, But I think you are too prudent not to boast about your projects. Come on. Share.

I cannot argue with that. Now I know mylot takes your ennui away. Passion projects. We need an enumeration here. I hope nothing trifling else that would weaken the justification for the boredom.

@cherriefic That's good. Never spend beyond one's means. Tell friends to avoid corporate contracts. Those are punishing. The workforce endure sacrifice for so little pay.

How much is more? For daily subsistence and education, perhaps a weekend activity as family bonding, or an extra lesson in martial arts or dancing. All the necessities accounted for, what else would a parent provide for that one has to let go of one's profession for practical purposes?

@eileenleyva Basic commodities my friend. Where we live, we have to be practical.

It is the practice of wealthy families, to enroll their children into business management or entrepreneurship, so the children can take over the family business. But the corporations were established by the old folks. The business was their passion. Children have different interests.

@cahaya1983 True. There is one successful accountant by the name of Wasington Sycip. He founded an accounting firm called Sycip, Gorres and Velayo. The firm became an established and successful accounting firm in our country. Sycip's first rule: none of his family could be accepted as partner in the SGV.

@eileenleyva Exactly. Passion can't necessarily be handed down. Even to make a business successful requires passion.

Once there was a very poor boy from the Visayas. His name escapes me at the moment. His family lived a distance from town, some five kilometers, if I recall right. The poor boy wanted very much to help out in the daily farm work. His father recognized the boy's cleverness and told him to study, Every day, before the break of dawn, the young boy would set out for the five kilometer walk to the public school in town. Every day, he witnessed the marvelous colors penetrating the darkness to give way to the light. He felt that way. One day, he would penetrate the world and leave the darkness of poverty. So, he studied. Before long, his teacher tapped him as their school's representative for the science and mathematics inter school competition, He won. His prize? A slot at the Science High School. A scholarship. That would mean leaving his parents and siblings. His parents prodded him to go. After four years, he was allotted a government scholarship at the country's premiere university. He earned a degree in Math in three years. Then he was sent to Japan for a Masteral. He earned it, and with the allowance given him, he sent to his family. Unfortunately, at this time, his father's health took for the worse and succumbed to illness. He came home and offered his father his accolades from a foreign land. He went back to the University of the Philippines, to impart to the students the knowledge, and also to teach them to dream, pursue one's calling, and nature will take care of itself. He got all his siblings to finish their education.

@eileenleyva seems like I also read the story. A success story of many people that seem like fiction, but its true. An inspiring one.

@ilocosboy There is one guy from Ilocos. The one who went to Silicon Valley. He designed the discs that we use now. He was a farmer's son.

As many of our mylotter friends point out, money is for daily subsistence, for nourishment, to pay bills, to get the family by. It is the love of money that we must detest. Many give up their talents and passion for money,

@eileenleyva Exactly! People give more importance to money than to their feelings.

That is correct. If one is good in theater and studies to be an engineer, there's not much success in that. One has to pursue the gift one is given.

Yes, we get a degree of satisfaction when we see our children finish their education. We are comfortable in our homes, waiting for the next pay day so we could settle the bills, the monthly amortization for the car and the house. At the end of the day, I ask, for many an old people I see dwell alone in their empty nests, the children have long gone, why are they lonely?